Best award winning movies with visionary filmmaker from 1972

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with visionary filmmaker from 1972! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with visionary filmmaker from 1972, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Godfather (1972)

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

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1972-03-14 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Marlon Brando, Al Pacino

Rating

rating icon 8.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #19 for
    like Scarface
  2. Ranked #43 for
    foster father
  3. Ranked #59 for
    Oscar-worthy performance

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2 Cabaret (1972)

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.

Info

1972-02-13 | Music / Drama

Cast

Liza Minnelli, Michael York

Rating

rating icon 7.385
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #7 for
    remarkable
  2. Ranked #15 for
    decadent
  3. Ranked #15 for
    deservedly won awards

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3 Cries and Whispers (1972)

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so deeply immersed in their own psychic pains that they can't offer her the support she needs. Maria is wracked with guilt at her husband's attempted suicide, caused by his discovery of her extramarital affair. The self-loathing, suicidal Karin seems to regard her sister with revulsion. Only Anna, the deeply religious maid who lost her young child, seems able to offer Agnes solace and empathy.

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1972-12-21 | Drama

Cast

Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin

Rating

rating icon 7.929
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #73 for
    consoling
  2. Ranked #135 for
    with marital problems
  3. Ranked #155 for
    juxtaposition

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4 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

Info

1972-09-15 | Comedy

Cast

Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig

Rating

rating icon 7.516
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #38 for
    impressionistic
  2. Ranked #115 for
    gastronomic
  3. Ranked #120 for
    lowbrow

Trailer

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5 Last Tango in Paris (1972)

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

Info

1972-10-14 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider

Rating

rating icon 6.982
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #21 for
    sexually explicit
  2. Ranked #92 for
    scandalous
  3. Ranked #111 for
    ad lib

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6 Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.

Info

1972-12-29 | History / Adventure

Cast

Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #16 for
    monomaniacal
  2. Ranked #98 for
    implacable
  3. Ranked #180 for
    iconoclast

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7 Solaris (1972)

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

Info

1972-03-20 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk

Rating

rating icon 7.833
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #123 for
    elegiac
  2. Ranked #131 for
    interplanetary
  3. Ranked #149 for
    introspective

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8 Deliverance (1972)

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

Info

1972-08-18 | Drama / Adventure

Cast

Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #30 for
    machismo
  2. Ranked #102 for
    Survival Movie
  3. Ranked #125 for
    locking horns

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9 State of Siege (1972)

Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

Info

1972-12-30 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #119 for
    canonical
  2. Ranked #125 for
    proof positive
  3. Ranked #184 for
    flashback sequence

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10 Frenzy (1972)

After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.

Info

1972-05-25 | Crime / Thriller

Cast

Jon Finch, Barry Foster

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #34 for
    gastronomic
  2. Ranked #41 for
    bludgeoned to death
  3. Ranked #51 for
    innocent man

Trailer

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